As of last week, I'd picked up seven ticks so far this year. Seven which actually bit me. Six of which glommed onto me in one ten-day period. Only five of which were removed in one piece. I've had all three life stages, too, nymph and juvenile and adult ( Read more... )

I love Esmerelda Element, I do, but this makes me want to run right out and buy a Kia Soul. Cleverpunition got on me about posting it - Thank you, Punition! I thought I already had but apparently not. (EDIT: jehannamama posted it in reply to an earlier thread here.) Listen to it with the sound on:

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Okay, I am getting a wheelchair plate for my green Element. The plates are white with navy blue writing ( Read more... )

If you want to talk about cars running on batteries, water, ethanol, diesel, or anything else (but not hamsters), say so in the comments. If you want to talk about re-designing cars, I'm listening. If you want to talk about tweaking public policy to disfavor old cars and new gas-guzzlers, do that - but tell me how you stop this from brutalizing ( Read more... )

My dearest savant_da_rat is sick, sick, sick. I'm getting sick, but fighting it. (Savant, alas, lost that battle himself.) And Ace is showing us more and more how ill he is, and I don't want to talk about that.


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Okay, this time I'm not disgusted, as I am for spider vids, but as a gardener, I am horrified. It would be even better with appropriately creepy (yes, pun intended) music.

Without further ado, here presented for my dear elegaer the very snail-oriented xendragon, The Giant Land Snail:

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And on the subject of gardens, my dearest savant_da_rat labored mightily today, yes, and ( Read more... )

It's old news, but still funny. Houdini the Hamster ate his mother's car back in 1997.

I'm guessing he did this for the same reason marmots eat cars in the American Pacific Northwest.

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